'Bachelorette' alum Kaitlyn Bristowe defends star Hannah Brown's decision to have sex: 'Women can have sex if they choose'

Contestants on long-running reality TV shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette often imply that they’ve had sex during filming — the couples often stay in a “Fantasy Suite” and the camera sometimes lingers outside a bedroom door — but on a recent teaser clip of the latter, Hannah Brown, the star of this season’s dating competition to find true love, said outright that she’d had sex with one of the men vying for her heart.

Well, that didn’t sit well with some viewers. After haters went after the Alabama pageant queen, another woman who knows what it’s like to star on The Bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe, came to her defense.

In a teaser clip that aired after Monday night’s episode, Hannah reveals to another contestant — who’s telling her that he would leave if she had been intimate with any of the contestants — that she has had sex during filming. She also speaks about it in one of the show’s signature confessional scenes, where she says that it had taken place in a windmill.

When Bristowe was asked about the scene during an interview with ET, she had this advice for Brown: “Stay strong, my friend, because you are in for a rough ride, but I am here for you.”

Bristowe was also bashed for revealing that she had sex with one of the men competing on her season of the show.

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